Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.
Emil Heinrich du Bois-ReymondTags: science admiration honor praise recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
José Cipriano de la Luz y CaballeroTags: science knowledge admiration honor praise alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt new-world columbus christopher-columbus
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.
Hermann von HelmholtzTags: science genius admiration honor praise recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he thinks that the theory has this consequence because he thinks that the Design Argument was the only remotely plausible argument for God’s existence and evolutionary theory destroyed that argument.
Elliott SoberTags: science evolution design evolutionary-biology daniel-dennett design-argument design-argument-debunked
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
Arthur KornbergTags: science biology children nobel-laureate germs bedtime-tales
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
Maurice WilkinsTags: science evolution natural-selection nobel-laureate dna origin-of-life genetic-material
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
Norwood Russell HansonTags: science universe logic physics scale very-large very-small
The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , i.e., from the days a century ago when the value-free doctrine held that there could be no place for the serious treatment of evaluation within the sciences (or in the company of other respectable disciplines like history, jurisprudence, mathematics, etc.) to the days when even the National Academy of Sciences is doing evaluations at the request of Congress without protest from leading scientific and other professional organizations, and everyone will have good reasons for this acceptance.
Michael ScrivenTags: science respect scientific congress doctrine professional evaluation national-academy-of-sciences
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]
Tags: science past biology history evolution instinct fossil form
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